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dissuasive of the whole measure. He seemed most 
earnest and wilful in his opposition, and used the ener- 
getic action suited to his words. His attentive audi- 
ence cried " korero ! korero ! " as on shore ; and seemed 
to humour his love of contradiction while they differed 
from him in opinion. 
After enumerating the articles of which the payment 
consisted, he described with great vivacity the rush 
which would be sure to take place for them on shore, 
and dwelt upon the fact that there would not be 
enough of everything to go round among all, and that 
many would remain dissatisfied. He said that every- 
one had cleared a bit of land, and that many would 
find themselves deprived of that, and without anything 
in exchange. " What will you say," urged he, " when 
" you find that you have parted with all your land from 
" the Rimarapa to the Turakirai, and from the Tara- 
" rua to the sea ? " 
These were the boundaries which had been pointed 
out by Pf^arepori from the deck in the hearing of 
the assembled chieftains. He had followed with his 
finger the summit of the mountain ranges mentioned, 
and told me their names, in order to their insertion 
in the deed, which I had been employed in pre- 
paring in the course of the day. Tararua is the name 
of a high snowy range, at the head of the great valley, 
from which the two other ranges branch off to the sea. 
It was extremely difficult — nay almost impossible — 
to buy a large and distinct tract of land, with fixed 
boundaries, from any native or body of natives of this 
part of New Zealand, perfectly unused as they were to 
any dealing in land according to our notions. These 
})eople had no distinct boundaries marked when they 
received the cession from the Ngatimutunga, and would 
have been puzzled to walk round or point out accu- 
